THE PM Gordon Brown has announced a major policy shift as part of his plan to build three million homes by 2020 and ease the housing crisis.

This will allow local authorities to borrow money to build council properties for the first time in a decade.

Built for the locals in these areas I hope, or they will be dusting off their pitchforks! If all the money from council house sales had been ploughed back into building more council houses there wouldn't be the extra need in areas now.

Definitely no need for councils to borrow money to build.

Also the plain fact there was land around then to be used, its decreased in ten years. So God only knows where the land is to build three million homes for what I see of things so much planning permission has been given to private developers over the years, now more than ever, that I fear we may even lose some of our Green Belt areas, thanks to John Prescott.

And could all these extra houses possibly be the slums of the future?

TERESA RUMSEY, Lymington.